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and peduncles with stellate down and black-based hairs, but no 
B land-tipped ones. Radical leaves oblanceolate or strapshaped- 
oblanceolate, niucronate, undulated, nearly entire ; stem-leaves 3 
to 10, the lower ones attenuated at the base, the middle ones 
elliptical or oval, the upper ones ovate-acuminate or lanceolate ; 
all sub-denticulate or entire, sessile or semi-amplexicaul, woolly 
on both sides, or only on the midrib, and ciliated with long simple 
white hairs ; bracts at the base of the peduncles ovate or lanceo- 
late. Anthodes large, 1 to 6, in a terminal sub-racemose corymb. 
Pericline hemispherical at the base ; phyllaries numerous, the outer 
ones broad, sub-foliaceous, and lax ; inner ones abruptly acute ; 
all clothed and densely ciliated with very long simple silky white 
hairs, not interspersed with gland-tipped ones. Florets nearly 
glabrous. Styles yellow. Plant glaucous. 
On alpine rocks, but there is considerable doubt if it has 
occurred in this country. There is, however, a specimen in 
Smith's Herbarium, imd one in the collection of the late Mr. W. 
Robertson, in the Newcastle Museum : both of these are from 
Mr. Drummond, and said to be " from rocks near Glen Callater." 
On the one hand, it will be very surprising if so conspicuous a 
plant should have escaped recent observation. On the other, 
Mr. Drummond was a man on whose specimens much greater 
reliance may be placed than on those of most of the old collectors. 
II. villosum was also said to have been found by Don about Loch- 
na-gar; but without the corroboration of Mr. Drummond, little 
attention would now be paid to this statement, from his habit of 
sending out cultivated specimens, which he believed to be the 
same as some plant which he had seen growing wild, but which 
very often was really something quite different; such as Potentilla 
tridentata, sent by him, when the plant which he had seen was no 
doubt Potentilla Sibbaldia. 
Scotland ? Perennial. Autumn. 
A very variable plant, the stems 4 to 18 inches high : when 
small and monocephalous, having somewhat the aspect of II. holo- 
sericoum, but when large and with numerous leaves and anthodes, 
unlike any of the other British species. The leaves vary very 
much in breadth and the anthodes in size, but the latter are 
rally large, and very handsome from the densely silky woolly 
pericline. 
The drawing which is now given of this plant is taken from 
